STF NOMINATES RAJ JIT IN 2018 NDPS CASE
Punjab Police’s STF against drugs on Wednesday booked the now dismissed SSP-rank officer, Raj Jit Singh, for criminal conspiracy with Inderjit Singh and framing false records with an intent to save the latter from punishment, besides indulging in extortion.
Raj Jit has been nominated in a June 2018 FIR registered by the STF against Inderjit after the recovery of 6kg heroin from his house in Phagwara. Inderjit, currently lodged in jail, was booked for smuggling and tampering with recoveries. The case is under trial.
According to information, sections 120B, 218 and 384 of the IPC besides sections 59 and 39 of the NDPS Act have been slapped on Raj Jit for his complicity with Inderjit when the former was Tarn Taran SSP and latter was working as CIA in-charge in the district.
The STF have also issued a look-out circular against Raj Jit and raids are being conducted to nab the dismissed cop who has gone underground ever since his dismissal.
The dismissal orders of Raj Jit — the first SSP-rank Punjab Police officer to be sacked on drug charges — read that he colluded with smugglers, framed innocent persons in fake cases and ran extortion racket/s.
The orders issued by additional chief secretary, home, Anurag Verma, clearly mention that Raj Jit abused and misused his official position to mint money through drug cases.
“The contents of all three reports submitted by SIT in compliance with the orders of Punjab and Haryana high court prove that Raj Jit and Inderjit were in cahoots. The duo was instrumental in spread of drug menace in the state by extending help to the drug peddlers/smugglers,” the ACS orders read.